The last thing you want to happen when you're sitting in a lawn chair drunk on a tuesday night and needing to punctuate a sentence or add a little more oomph to a long rambling story is to find out your ar-15 is empty and so are all your mags.

I think we have been conditioned as American's to buy lots of magazines that we probably will never use due to the last Assault Weapons Ban. That Bill Clinton law drove prices for a single magazine to $100 in some cases.

Magazines are almost always the first thing they go after too. I remember ar-15 mags were $30 and up during the ban. When it expired you could get them for 5-10 bucks if you bought in enough bulk. You didn't know if the ban was coming back in a month or after the next election or the one after that. I was buying magazines for glocks I didn't even own just for speculative purposes. Forget the guns, you could get those later. It was a different time for sure.